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Originally Posted by chassis
EVs are cheaper for car companies to manufacture, and the car companies are begging governments to legislate in favor of EVs.
EVs are coming, but it is not because they are less polluting.
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Indeed, EVs are much simpler since they can ditch the most expensive mechanical compounds of the car. Also the ones that conceive dominantly the hart and soul of a car, sadly enough.
Nevertheless, when the BEV becomes mainstream, the retail prices will get adjusted also. That's the commodity magnet that translates technology advancements into lower retail prices and this is a dominant law in economics.
Most car manufacturers are not asking for this, they feel obliged to go this direction. Doing this transition is no doubt a very difficult and expensive one. But more and more customers ask for it, mainly because of the lower TCO (tax deductability/running taxes).
In Europe, BMW and some other manufacturers are fighting against this transition and certainly the speed imposed.